There are some Best Picture Oscar winners that you only need to

For every Best Picture Oscar winner like the burly caper “No Country for Old Men,” or even the endless-quotable “Forrest Gump” there are more than a handful of films like “Slumdog Millionaire” or “The Artist” that are good for one viewing and nothing further. For every Best Picture Oscar winner like the burly caper “No Country for Old Men,” or even the endless-quotable “Forrest Gump” there are more Hey, it could have been worse.

Today in History

On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.

George Saunders Gets Inside Lincoln’s Head

Seekers of Presidential frisson cherish the synchronous deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, on July 4, 1826, a temporal thrill doubled by the date’s being the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Another eerie conjunction belongs to February 20th, which delivered to the White House, on two occurrences a century apart, some of the keenest joy and deepest sorrow to enter the building.

Trump: White House Is ‘Elegant’

President Donald Trump called the White House “elegant,” and a “beautiful residence,” in a phone interview with The New York Times. “There’s something very special when you know that Abraham Lincoln slept there,” Trump said.

Here’s how much it would cost to buy the White House

November 1962: American First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy kneels on the floor with her son, John F. Kennedy, Jr. , playing with a wooden toy figure, inside the White House, Washington, D.C. There is a rag doll on the chair behind them. November 1962: American First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy kneels on the floor with her son, John F. Kennedy, Jr. , playing with a wooden toy figure, inside the White House, 24th November 1991: American statesman George Bush, the 41st President of the United States, reading a Christmas story to his grandchildren on Christmas Eve at the White House, Washington DC.